ACLU: Terrorist Watch List hits one million names

ACLU claims terrorist watch list reached one million names; launches online watch list complaint form

TSA: ACLU’s terrorist watch list facts and figures are a myth

The Transportation Security Administration refutes the facts and figures used by the ACLU in the latter’s claim that the list is now 1-million strong

Expedited screening for flight deck crew members

TSA tests expedited flight crew screening; measure is mandated by 9/11 legislation; TSA will use trial to examine behavior detection methods

Stanley closes Oberon acquisition

Purchase puts integrator on the biometrics fast track, enabling it to compete with some of the largest systems integrators in the government market for opportunities with the Defense Department

Cyber cafes to be monitored in India

Indian police places biometric systems and CCTV in more than 150 cyber cafes in order to catch cyber criminals in the act

U.K. nursery chain install biometric access control

Fourteen Busy Bees children's nurseries install biometric access control from UK Biometric; access control will allow entry only to parents and care-givers

Draft security publication looks at cell phones, PDAs

PDAs are offering more and more features, and more people now use them; NIST publishes a draft guidelines on security considerations for cell phones and PDAs

Bank customers can designate one finger as "panic finger"

Can biometrics make banking more secure? Perhaps this will: New system allows customers to designate one finger as 'panic finger": swipe the said digit across the scanner and the transaction will appear to go through as normal even as the bank is alerted that something fishy is going on

National ID projects drive Asian biometrics market growth

Dublin, Ireland-based Research and Markets has released its "Biometrics Markets in Asia Pacific" report. The Asia Pacific (APAC) biometrics market is still in its early growth stages with National ID and e-Passport programs contributing to a large portion of the growth, the report says. National ID projects provide the widest and largest user base for biometrics in Asia at present. Invariably, every national ID project which has been implemented, or is in the pipeline, employs fingerprint or thumbprint as the biometric key. The Malaysian national ID card employs the thumbprint as the identifying key. India, which is still in the pilot stage of the issuance of national ID cards, employs fingerprints as the identifying key. Other large-scale implementation projects such as the Chinese national ID and the Japanese national ID are expected to take to biometrics shortly. The high cost of implementing a biometric system, however, has been a restraint globally and the same is likely to be the case in the APAC region.